Katherine Heigl got a look at the reality series “Dance Moms” and (like most of the rest of us) was pretty shocked at what she saw! She talked about it in a post on iVillage.

“I watched with open-mouthed amazement as girls as young as seven were encouraged to dress provocatively and shimmy around a stage doing a dance performance that could just as easily been a burlesque routine.”

“I kept thinking all these girls were missing is a pole! I was also horrified by the way their instructor spoke to them when she felt they weren’t up to snuff.  It was demeaning, belittling, and downright unkind.”

“There is no reason to break anyone down in order to prepare them for inevitable disappointment or unkindness.   There is no reason to diminish anyone’s self-esteem in order to get them to try harder next time. Especially not a child’s.”

“It’s one thing to walk into a club and see 20-somethings embracing their sexuality and having some fun, but it’s another thing altogether watching 7-year-olds shake their booties, bellies and nonexistent boobies on a stage in a room full of adults and be handed a trophy for it. What in the world are we telling them? That sexy is the prize and is the talent they have?”

“The young girls on Dance Moms are wonderfully talented, spirited ladies who should be encouraged to perform since they seem to truly have a knack for it.  I just wish they were being inspired, instructed and supported for their gifts as I was when I found my creative path.”

Have you seen the show? Is it horrible or entertaining, in your opinion?

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Katherine Heigl shared a lot in a new interview with Scholastic’s Parent & Child.  She talked about everything from adoption to donating her brother’s organs when they lost him at just 15 years old.

On the decision to adopt:

“Josh and I started talking about [adoption] before we were even engaged.  My sister Meg is Korean, and my parents adopted her three years before I was born. I wanted my own family to resemble the one I came from, so I always knew I wanted to adopt from Korea.”

Did she worry that Josh might have reservations about adoption:

“Anyone who doesn’t have experience with adoption wonders, does love for a child come through DNA? I knew it didn’t. My mother had biological children and an adopted child and said it made absolutely no difference. They’re yours. You love them the moment they’re put into your arms. Josh had to learn that, but he was so gracious and accepting.

She and Josh are trying to raise Naleigh the same way they were brought up:

We both have families who believe in character, integrity, and morality. Not to be overindulged, to be respectful of parents. We feel strongly about these things, especially because of the industries we’re in. We’ll have to work a little bit harder to keep Naleigh grounded and to make sure she understands how blessed she is — how blessed we all are.

Not only does Katherine run a foundation in her late brother’s name to help animals, she also works with organ donation organizations:

Yes, with an organization called Donate Life. Organ donation is hard to talk about, and our family faced it under the worst circumstances. The accident left my brother with a brain injury, but everything else was working. So we were able to donate most of his organs.  There’s a grace in it, this ability to honor him this way. It helps a little to know that he lives on at some level, that people say his name every day now.

Katherine also dished on working with Debbie Reynolds in ‘One For the Money’

“At first it was intimidating because I admire her so much. But we had such a good time. She always had a cough drop in her mouth and in one scene, I started choking on roast beef. She made me take a cough drop, and it worked. She said, “Yeah, old people know a lot. We just want to pass it along before we die.” She is the kookiest, funniest, raunchiest chick you’ll ever meet”

You can read the rest of the interview here. It’s worth a peek!

Katherine Heigl looks like a hot mess as she fills up her car, and runs other errands in Los Angeles with her mom.

I’m not a fan of this outfit – any of it.

AND – she should have NEVER cut her hair. Not a good look on her at all. Makes her look 10 years older!

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The family of three stopped for drinks at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf before heading to lunch at Little Dom’s restaurant where they dined outside. After lunch they headed back home.

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Katherine Heigl has lunch with her husband Josh Kelley and mother Nancy in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon. Katherine enjoyed an electronic cigarette, which I think looks just as stupid as actually smoking (maybe more). There’s just nothing classy about sucking on a fake cigarette. Just not hot.

And speaking of non-hot – what is up with that belt buckle!? She’s not even on set – she actually thought that belt was a good idea!

Maybe the electronic cig is clouding her judgment.

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Katherine Heigl went for lunch yesterday afternoon with her mother Nancy at Little Dom’s in Los Feliz, CA. Katherine’s still addicted to her electronic cigarette. Classy!

Things may be slowing down for Katherine. After her last movie, ‘Life As We Know It’ bombed, she only has two movies lined up for 2011, and none for 2012. Next up will be ‘One For the Money’ costarring John Lequizamo – and that’s about it. Seriously.

After that – she’s got a small part in ‘New Years Eve’, alongside every other actor in Hollywood.

And that’s it. Maybe she should have stuck with ‘Grey’s Anatomy’!

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